Google DRIVE allows you to create folders and organize your work. You can share a folder
with anyone on the WEB:

• Can share an entire folder with anyone; use the URL provided by Google

• Can share files publicly so that people who are not signed into Google can view them

• Viewers do not need Google accounts to view a folder you've shared on the WEB

• In edit mode, click, "Share" > "Anyone with this link can view"

• Can choose to allow others to be: viewer, commenter, or editor

• Click, "Copy Link" to share the link to the entire folder

• Copy and paste a link in an email, on a webpage or blog, on a class website, in Google Classroom, etc.

Once a Drive folder is shared publicly:

• Files within that folder will be visible to anyone on the WEB

• You can also limit visibility to ONLY those people in your school or organization

• Parents/guardians can access folders when you want to make assignments, handouts, permission slips, etc. available for them to see/download/print.

• If you do not use Google Classroom, you can also push assignments and handouts out to students.

• You can stop publishing at any time

There are different ways to use folders in DRIVE:

Teacher, administrator, and staff uses:

• Sort unit materials

• Sort materials you use year after year; reference last year's materials while creating new ones for this year; just change the dates and any info that needs updating

• Sort your personal work for committees, monthly reports, organizational forms for things such as personal days, substitutes, etc.

• Sort assessments, rosters, attendance, school policies, etc.

Folders are a great way to sort your students' work as they hand assignments in, especially if you do not use Google Classroom:

• Create folders, by period, to hold student work

• As students submit their assignments, they automatically appear in that student's folder, in the correct period

• Have students create folders in the beginning of the year and share their assignment folder with you.

• As students put Docs into those folders, they automatically appear in your Google DRIVE account

Folders in Google Classroom:

• Google Classroom automatically creates folders for each assignment

• When you push Doc assignments out to each student individually, a Google Doc is created for each student; his/her name is appended to the Doc

• As students submit their work, their Docs are automatically added to the Classroom folder for that assignment

• Work flow between teacher and students is much easier when using Classroom

Student Uses:

• Create folders to sort their own assignments, research, notes, etc. in their DRIVE to reference as they do assignments

• Create folders to keep images they've collected, Google Drawings they've done, and any other files or resources they wish to use for reference

• If not using Google Classroom, students can create folders for each class and share those folders with specific teachers. As they drop assignments into those folders, the assignments "automatically" show up in the various teachers' assignment folders for their classes.

• If using Google Classroom, students can also find assignments, organized by folder, inside their "Classroom Folder" in Google Drive. They can ope those folders and access the Docs they've submitted to their teachers